Not only does the Xoom have Honeycomb, it has a pretty amazing bootup screen which you can check out here.
When Bootup floated a significantly lower offer, we withdrew from their offices in early March.
Being the world's first tablet with Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), it also has a mesmerizing, tron-like bootup screen.
While it is true that we had signed a Term Sheet with Bootup it became quite clear to us that Bootup did not have the capital required to fulfill the promised $150K in that Term Sheet.
While not everyone who updated their watch had issues, some users reported that their watches were showing a red exclamation mark at bootup (like the one below) — and doing a hard reset often didn't fix it.
After the Kinect does a 10-second-or-so bootup dance, you wave at it to get its attention.
Smartphones are a must have, and we suspect that since people are already checking email on such a phone while they are working remotely, it's an extra step to get out and bootup your tablet, so if you have a great phone app that does the same thing, just use it to view your files.
Indeed, there is a fairly steep learning curve from your first bootup, and though I now feel comfortable enough with Windows 8 on a day-to-day basis, it will take a newcomer some time to figure out where everything is, how to switch back and forth between apps, where exactly the start menu disappeared to -- and more.
Again, if I were Bootup Labs, I'd apologize a million times, explain in the greatest detail possible what went wrong when, where and how, and what measures I'm going to take to avoid such a situation ever to happen again in the future.
jaydoubleyou I agree a LiveCD is the best, but I'd also mention Wubi, an excellent option that installs Ubuntu as a Windows app and lets you select it on bootup.
